#NMF What's new this week on Qobuz: The Viennese duo Leyya is awarded a Qobuzissime for a second album that's more electronic than ever; the German piano and electronic virtuoso Nils Frahm records an album in the former East German radio and television studios; ex-Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah releases a dark concept album with Apollo Brown; Craig David gets back down to business and the pianist Sergio Tiempo proves that he is indeed an extra-terrestrial.
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"Get to Know Conductor Xian Zhang
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Posted by KUSC Staff · 12/7/2017
Photo by Harrison Parrott
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"Conductor Xian Zhang is one of four women who will conduct the LA Phil this season. (More than double the number of female guest conductors visiting any other major American orchestra.) 🎹
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"She was born in Dandong, China, studied at the Beijing Conservatory, and moved to the United States in 1998,and is now the orchestra’s
conductor emeritus.
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"Currently, Xian Zhang is the music director of the New Jersey Symphony and the principal guest conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. 🎹
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"She’s guest conducting the LA Phil this weekend in a program that includes the Symphony No. 6 by Sergei Prokofiev, Ge Xu by Chen Yi, and the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Argentine pianist Sergio Tiempo.
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"XZ: 'I was born at the end of the cultural revolution – no musical instrument was supposed to survive it. They were all destroyed into pieces or burned. 🎹
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"'Nowhere to find a piano, my dad found a way to get some parts and assembled a piano for me. He had to build the exterior wooden shell of the piano and painted it a bright red color. It is still standing in my parents’ home in my hometown Dandong, China.
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"'I had two female role models when I was studying conducting. They both studied at the Moscow Conservatory and both are very well-trained as orchestral/opera conductors. 🎹
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"'They taught me in a very strict and demanding method. To this day, I still benefit from their training and guidance. I try to do the same now to help young conductors regardless of gender. 🎹
"'But female students need an extra boost of confidence because they are still rare. Certainly more rare in continental Europe."
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https://www.kusc.org/culture/out-and-about-blog/xian-zhang-la-phil/
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